Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-24
NEW ISSUES.

The Boston Globe takes this mild view
of HENRY GEoRGE's qaasi Sccjalistic land
theories. 1t says that there is '~sprlnging
mp 4 demand for the abolition of all taxes
on improvements and the products OF in
dustry, and the raising Of all the revenue
by a tax on land values, coupled with the
control of railroads by the Government,
the control OF tclegraphS, telephones and
all other means Of distribution and COM
municatiOn, and a government issue Of q
medium of exchange" adding: THE
taxation issue is more or less inspired by
the teachings of HENRY GEORGE. The
Union Labor party in Ohio has recently
adopted a platform which declares that the
existing inequalities of condition under
the economic system which prevails grow
ont of the robbery of the many Of natural
opportunities which arethe property Of all.
Therefore, they would reform and recaSt
the taxation system, simplifying it to the
utmost, rs We have already designated
Perhaps the Globe can make u better
plea for HENRY GEOEGE'S nonsense than
Mr.. GEORGE himself does, rs it here
e~leyates it To the dignity of an issue and
seems to think the country is going to
seriously consider it. The coupling Of the
Greenback Labor party Of Ohio with the
HENRY GEORGE system of taxation is an
other mistake of the Globe. The platform
of the Ohio people distinctly eschewS
HENRY GEORGE and this is the point of
difference between it and the United
Labor or GEORGE party of New York. Of
course they both aim ut that delightfully."-
indefinite state which they call anti
poverty" hut they take divergrng roads to
get there. Aud, naturally, one or the
other will have to circle around o~Onsidera-
bly, if they do not both get lost.
On the question OF foreign immigration
the Globe say: Following Mr.. POWDER
LY, the w~orkingmeu Of the country are
evidently getting ready to demand a re-
NAlANl4f4 VI HIfahlEltNAlbh WI AAt ENhA AAN
ofthe country aud the immigrant. They
are also about "a insist on having the same
protection for the employed which has
hitherto been claimed and enjoyed only by
employers Ia labelling immigration eN-
clusively "a labor party issue the Globe is
again decidedly mistaken. Both the old
parties will have much to Jay on the sub
ject, more in tact aud to better purpose
than the labor party.
On the question OF protection for the
employed Us we'll rs the employer the Dem
Ocratic party has long since declared itself
and its stand is radical. The Democratic
party of Ohio, in its platform, says:
Labor, being the chief factor and great
CONSERVATION OF free and liberal institutions,
should enjoy its full share of the Common
benefits derived therefrom; therefore, We
favor such restraints Of the Capitalization
and encroachment of corporate power rs
will bring the best possible protection to
honest labor, and at the same time con-
serve to the interests of hOnestly-employed
capital" And in the same connection it
demands a reduction of the present tariff
so burdensOme to the working man and
the farmer and so stimulating to monOp-
oily.
In fact, the only exclusive issue Of the
sO-ealled Labor party is GEORGE, or his
harum-scarum theories, and these no SEN
sible ~workingman, who has the good Ofhis
country and of his own freside at heart,
will endorse.